Maybe. But the solution is really what Cyber suggested. I would assume you’ll get poor performance at 1080 also. (Bigger than a postage stamp.)
You need to run the Mega Bezel on high performance hardware.
When you are ready, I wouldn’t go with an APU either. Spend more money than you think you can afford, go with a 3070 or higher GPU. In the end you’ll be much happier, for much longer.
While you are saving up some cash, you can go with a slim CRT shader and overlays.
BTW. How is your performance using a Lite shader? e.g. \bezel\Mega_Bezel\Presets\Base_CRT_Presets\MBZ__3__STD__GDV-MINI.slangp
Cyber’s presets are not optimized for performance. (They are using a heavy hitter base preset.)
Edit: Just read through your posts and saw that you get a 90% increase in performance. Your last post didn’t mention any flicker. Is that no longer an issue?
Ah OK, was just a sudden thought that drifted into my mind - sounds like I’m way off base though.
The flicker only occurred on the Potato versions - I leapt straight into the most hungry ADV version this time, to see if performance improved when I shrank the window. There’s no flicker on the ADV ones for whatever reason.
I might give the STD ones a go, too, and see if a 1080p res gives me good, flicker free performance.
Fully appreciate where you’re coming from on the ‘Just buy a PC with good specs’ angle. It’s not something I’m planning on any time soon as this is just something I’ve started tinkering a bit with, rather than something I want to put a lot of money towards. OTOH, I appreciate that my incessant questioning in here might be annoying when there is an obvious ‘Buy a capable PC’ solution to every query.
With that in mind I thank all of you guys for your patience and the time you’ve spent kindly discussing with me.
And just to add, I’ve not had a complete fail on the shaders front. The lighter stuff like Nesguy’s RGB GUEST ADV preset and the Megatron SDR ones work great, and I love the results with those
This is probably because cyber’s presets use the SMOOTH-ADV preset as the base which is most resource hungry base preset from the Mega Bezel (@Cyber correct me if I’m wrong).
@Cyber you may want to consider switching to the ADV preset as your base in the presets which are not using scalefx as the performance will be much better since a number of people are using them, but of course this is up to you.
I totally get that not everyone has the means (Or need.) to buy a beefy PC. That is why I have standard overlay versions of all my graphics. They can be used on an SBC.
I have 4 main preset folders with 3 subfolders for Optimized alternative presets at 3 resolution - 4K, 1440p and 1080p. I mainly use 4K, occasionally, I might use 1080p. There’s a vast difference in performance between running a preset at 4K vs running a preset at 1080p. If a user has a 4K screen, but not enough performance, I recommend they either use the 1080p presets at 1080p desktop resolution for a significant performance improvement, use my presets in my second tier folder, which uses the SMOOTH-ADV-NO-REFLECTIONS base preset or if more performance is needed still, a combination of reducing resolution to 1080p and using the presets in the 1080p folder and using the presets that use the SMOOTH-ADV-NO-REFLECTIONS base presets.
That’s 3 tiers of performance available there alone.
Subsequently, I came across @Soqueroeu-TV’s excellent TV backgrounds, which use the STD_GDV base preset with Full Reflections. I made presets for those that are optimized for 3 resolutions 4K, 1440p and 1080p.
I thought to myself that folks who for whatever reason couldn’t run the presets that use the SMOOTH-ADV-NO-REFLECTIONS Base Preset can at least use these and have a wonderful, beautiful experience.
Lastly, I most recently made a folder with a couple presets for Mobile/SBC Devices and Very Low Spec PCs.
Those presets use GDV-MINI.
I think I’ve done enough to cover a wide range of performance scenarios with my included presets and users always have the options to modify my base presets if they wish to eek out even more performance than already on offer.
There might be a few presets or even many at times that can benefit from optimization but there are over 150 in the folder and many of them are intertwined. I’m not going to go through each one to change the base preset then it negatively affects another preset which branches off of it that uses a particular feature.
Also, I develop and test as I play. I tweak as I play, today, I might feel that a preset might look better or good enough with ScaleFX Off, I might do some further experimentation and tomorrow or next week, I might decide that I prefer the way that preset looks with ScaleFX On.
If I was to change the base preset to STD or even ADV right after I set it to Off, then that’s not only extra steps but when I flip the ScaleFX switch in order to see how it looks, nothing would happen.
As a matter of fact, there may be not even be a ScaleFX switch because it might have been removed from the settings of the base preset.
I thought I explained most of this maybe last week in response to a question by @Duimon about, “why no middle ground?” but I guess my response wasn’t fully understood.
Here are the links to those posts.
It’s not far fetched that I might create a super optimized version of my preset pack but this would only take place at a time when development isn’t so fluid and time is permitting. I already have 4 Main folders of presets. I won’t want to add too many more to create confusion in users minds.
So, it is not entirely the case that there’s isn’t any middle ground for performance in my shader preset pack and that CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack requires a high performance machine or even that they are not optimized for performance.
As for the former, I use a GeForce GTX 970 with 4GB VRAM at 4K with my SMOOTH-ADV-NO-REFLECTIONS presets and at 1080p with my SMOOTH-ADV presets and they run perfectly. Surely, a GeForce GTX 970 is considered low end to low mid-range by 2022 standards?
As for the latter, I have chosen to optimize my presets in a way that preserves the fine details and qualities of my presets while still giving me the flexibility to work on perfecting the art of my shader presets as an artist with his full slate of brushes, easles, canvasses and colours.
Here is a quick table showing performance tiers from high end to potato using CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack.
Read the installation instructions at the beginning of this thread. If your interested in my MAME presets, follow the link to my thread and read my installation instructions.
Once everything is installed, call up the RA GUI by pressing F1 on your keyboard or the Home key on your gamepad.
The new features such as “Ambient Lighting * Default ambient lighting has changed so that the first lighting image will affect everything but the background”
Is there any video showing it in action somewhere?
So by Ambient Lighting, in this case, it means that the overlay will have a different tone, so it’s static.
I thought it was somehow dynamic, much like a darkened room with a TV screen ON.
Hi,
Can anyone help me please?
I have followed the instruction for this using Retroarch but keep getting a failed to load shader error. Dont know what Im doing wrong is there a dummies guide anywhere?
(They are using a heavy hitter base preset.)
